Hostage release deal in sight, but US president warns it is ‘far from over’
and hostage release deal that he claimed was now in sight, but he warned that it was “far from over”.
Israel has insisted that peace will only be possible if Palestinian Islamist group Hamas is destroyed, while Hamas has said it will only accept a permanent ceasefire, not a temporary one. US President Joe Biden has said that a ceasefire deal in Middle East is 'closer than we have ever been'. The latest bloodshed in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was triggered on October 7th when Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
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